Jerome Books
These books and others are available at the Mining Museum Gift Shop or by mail by contacting the Jerome Historical Society (928) 634-1066 or (928) 634-7122
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They Came to Jerome $12.95 This is the most comprehensive book about Jerome's history during the mining era. It chronicles the town's life from its beginnings as a copper camp in the late 1800s through its mining heyday before the Great Depression. |
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Narrow Gauge to Jerome $12.95 This book tells the story of the United Verde and Pacific Railway, a 26-mile long narrow gauge line that snaked its way out of Jerome. To truly experience this book, purchasing the Auto Road Log will guide you along the now 26-mile long road that stands in place of the railroad. |
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Ballad of Laughing Mountain - $9.95 A wonderful photo-essay of Jerome during its ghost town era, a time when the mines had closed down and the town was truly a ghost town. Limited edition. |
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Verde Valley Railroads $12.95 Another book by Russell Wahmann. The growth of Jerome into one of the great industrial mining centers of the Southwest could not have happened without the railroads. They brought miners and mining executive, cattlemen, merchants, madams, tools and equipment; and transported billions of dollars worth of copper, plus gold, silver and zinc ore. Russell Wahmann spent hundreds of hours to research and find the information and rare photographs that make this book a historic gem. |
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Ghosts of Cleopatra Hill $12.95 This book by Herbert Young describes Jerome's meager beginnings as an isolated mining camp in the late 1800s and its growth into the fourth largest city in the Territory of Arizona. Read about the five men of Spain that first visited Jerome's mines in 1583, the prospectors who staked new claims in 1876 and the men who settled Jerome. |